May 2016

To get one fairly minor cavil out of the way: one or two scenes in Ricki and The Flash (2015) are unartfully staged—not mangled but, given the overarching appeal of the film, annoying—and there are […]

“Go get them, Angie Tribeca!” shouts the bloke at the end of a long queue of handymen (while admiringly glancing at her derriere – or was that just me?) waiting outside Tribeca’s apartment, which she […]

Director Barbet Schroeder brought a European sensibility to Reversal of Fortune (1990) that affords the subject the perspective it probably deserves. His Oscar-nominated treatment urges us to take neither the bleak marital arrangements of Claus […]

Despite the slick crisis management deployed by Wolff, (and we’ll ignore the knee jerk reaction of Lauda and the claim from the German Press that Hamilton apologies for the incident)…….it’s obvious to me that yet […]